摘要 |
A base station is configured to communicate with a terminal using a resource element configured of an area in the frequency direction and an area in the temporal direction, and a resource block pair configured of a predetermined number of the resource elements. The base station includes: a second control channel generating unit configured to generate a second control channel which can be mapped to a second control channel area which is an area different from a first control channel area where a first control channel can be mapped, and which is set to the terminal from the base station in units of the resource block pair. A resource element group which is a group of the predetermined resource elements in the resource block pair of the second control channel area is configured, and the second control channel is mapped to a plurality of the resource element groups. |